Why do fictional biological dragons exist in both eastern and western cultures?

Although they are both called "dragons", the two "dragons" are completely different things.

The first is the different shapes.

This is a typical dragon.

This is a typical western dragon.

Look at this shape. China's dragons have no wings, while western dragons have wings.

Don't say how to fly without wings. Those who can fly with wings, China has a Lei Zhenzi, and the west is those angels. How many of those who can fly have wings?

So, China really has a winged dragon, and that is Ying Long.

Ying Long once mixed with the Yellow Emperor, and under the guidance of the Yellow Emperor, he killed Chiyou. In my memory, the second time I appeared in a fairy tale was to control water with Dayu. That is to say, in China, this dragon is also different in appearance. Simply put, it is a dragon with horns, a dragon with horns, a dragon with wings and a dragon with scales. And not all western dragons have wings!

So why are there such "creatures" as dragons in the East and the West?

In fact, these two things are completely different. China is a dragon, and foreign countries are dragons.

Although they are all expressed in one word, what they represent is very different, because it is the product of two different cultures after all. I remember reading somewhere that the dragon in China is a kind of reproductive worship. This idea is also reasonable!

This shape. -。 . . .

Besides, that dragon can spray water. =

Does the rain and dew come from here?

No matter from the perspective of good and evil, there are still some dragons in China, such as Little White Dragon in Songhua River and Comrade Lao Li with bald tail. It was a 300-round war! There is even the Jinghe Dragon King whose head was broken off. Dragons in the west are not all bad people, otherwise why do some heralds have dragons?